From a 1999 article in War in History and in `` Inventing the Schlieffen Plan '' ( 2002 ) to `` The Real German War Plan , 1906–1914 '' ( 2011 ) , Terence Zuber engaged Participation in a debate with Terence Holmes , Annika Mombauer , Robert Foley , Gerhard Gross , Holger Herwig and others .

Zuber proposed Creating that the Schlieffen Plan was a myth concocted in the 1920s by partial writers , intent on exculpating themselves and proving that German war planning did not cause the First World War , a view which was supported by Hew Strachan .